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Mandates and pricing boost MetLife, TAL group inflows

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
Superannuation fund insurance mandates and pricing increases placed MetLife and TAL well above-average in annual group risk inflows. MetLife recorded a 105.9% increase in overall group risk premium inflows during the year ended March 2014, according ...

Group risk premiums on the up: Rice Warner

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
Australia's group life segment has begun increasing premium levels, Recent Rice Warner analysis shows. The research and consulting business for the superannuation industry compared the average premiums for death and TPD cover for the 10 largest industry ...

MAX Preview: Beyond value of advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... business owners. There was a lot of talk around the effectiveness of thematic campaigns (around SMSFs, retirement and insurance) but even more appealing to the planning panellists are campaigns around how they navigate through the current markets and ...

Super insurance still worth billions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
The life insurance industry continues to profit from its superannuation policies despite the spike in group insurance claims, figures released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) show. According to APRA's Life Insurance Supplementary ...

UBS adviser banned from financial services industry

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... authorised representative of Ballast Financial Management and an employee and sole shareholder of Australian Global Insurance Services. He falsely represented to his Australian financial services (AFS) licensee that he was not a bankrupt.

IFM grows infra debt team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... infrastructure a senior analyst in infrastructure finance at Moody's. Prior to that he worked at Barclays, Financial Guaranty Insurance Company and KPMG. Cooper said of the appointment: "Investors have increasingly turned to infrastructure debt as a ...

Budget cuts force ASIC to axe surveillance

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... would stop, but gave "some examples." He said that proactive surveillance would be reduced in the deposit takers and insurance team and explained that "they will focus on activity around entities that have higher market impact" and reduce surveillance ...

FEAL to recognise top superannuation CIOs and COOs

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2014
... It is open to staff in said positions at fiduciary funds, including superannuation funds, government funds, statutory insurance funds, and multi-managers funds. Last year's winners were Commonwealth Bank Group Super's CIO Gerald Parlevliet (Chief Investment ...

AIA Australia re-enters direct insurance market

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
AIA Australia has signed a deal with Bendigo Bank and it will provide direct insurance to its customers for five years. The insurer has partnered with the bank to launch Bendigo SmartCover, a life insurance product that consumers can buy through the ...

Super isn't working for us, say baby boomers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... were most prepared to give up alcohol, tobacco and new clothing, and least prepared to give up dining out and health insurance.